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CFM Radio Summer Festival 2010 with Jools Holland Billetter Til Race, Carlisle Racecourse, Carlisle

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:32:44 GMT

Keyboards king Jools Holland is to play a record-breaking open-air concert at Carlisle Racecourse!

The popular TV presenter, pianist and bandleader will perform live in front of the racecourse's biggest ever crowd of up to 10,000 spectators next summer.

Tickets are now available here for the gig by Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, which will be part of the CFM Summer Family Festival evening meeting on Saturday July 3.

The 90-minute set will get underway around 9.15pm once the evening's horse racing has finished. The entertainment will then be rounded off with a spectacular fireworks display set to music.

All three elements - horse racing, live music and fireworks – are included in the ticket price of just £15 or £20.

John Baker, the racecourse's managing director, said "We are really excited to have such a legendary and respected musician as Jools Holland as our headline act for the CFM Summer Family Festival. It's a fantastic all round value-for-money event.

"We are confident that our biggest ever crowd of 8,000 to see Tony Hadley perform here back in 2006 will be smashed. We received really positive feedback after Escala performed at this year's CFM Summer Family Festival, so we set our sights on topping that in 2010 - and I think we have.

"We are sure the people of Cumbria and beyond will turn out in record numbers for what should be a superb evening's entertainment. Tickets will make great Christmas presents and guarantee a place at what should be an evening to remember."

More than 7,000 people attended last July's CFM Summer Family Festival featuring Escala. The racecourse has been enjoying a rise in attendances this year, with crowds up nearly 20% despite the recession. Even yesterday's Countryside Day meeting drew 3,500 spectators despite atrocious weather which saw an inch-and-a-half of rain fall during the day.

Jools' orchestra will include Gilson Lavis from Squeeze on drums, special guest vocalists Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall as well as skaand reggae legend Rico Rodriguez on trombone.

The event is being supported by Stobart.

Jools is no stranger to Cumbria, having performed sell-out gigs at the Maryport Blues Festival and more recently at The Sands Centre in Carlisle in August this year.

The musical maestro sprang to fame in the 1970s aged 15 when he formed Squeeze with Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford. Their hits included Up The Junction and Cool For Cats. After co-presenting The Tube on TV with Paula Yates, Jools formed The Jools Holland Big Band in 1987 and this has gradually morphed into the current 20-piece band, with organist, drummer, three female vocals, guitar, bass guitar, two tenor saxophones, two alto saxophones, baritone saxophone, three trumpets, and four trombones. They play live in front of more than 500,000 people around the world annually.

Jools' career as a recording artist has also seen him collaborate with performers like Sting, Tom Jones, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Bono, Joe Strummer, KT Tunstall, Robert Plant, Smokey Robinson, Sugababes, Ringo Starr and Peter Gabriel.

Drawing Portraits Workshop Event Billetter, National Portrait Gallery, London

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:05:12 GMT

Explore portrait in pencil in this one day or two evening workshop on drawing techniques, faces and portraits with visits into the gallery, experiments and intensive observations. Led by artist Marc Woodhead.

John Gibbons Udstillingsbilletter, National Portrait Gallery, London

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:05:11 GMT

Artist John Gibbons will discuss his unconventional and imaginative approach to portraiture and the idea of associated memories in his sculpture with curator Paul Moorhouse. Gibbons' work is currently on display in Room 32.

Portrait Sculpture Workshop Event Billetter, National Portrait Gallery, London

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:05:11 GMT

This one day or two evening workshop on 3D portraiture will investigate ideas of form, positive and negative space in a range of media. Taking inspiration from the medieval sculptures of Kings and Queens to Quinn’s Self and the work of John Gibbons. Led by artist Tanja Ganger.

Rock and Roll Walking Tour Event Billetter, National Portrait Gallery, London

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:05:11 GMT

See Beatles to Bowie then strut your stuff through the streets of London as Blue Badge Guide Kevin Molloy leads a walking tour illuminating the hip people and funky places of swinging London in the 1960s. Ticket price includes entry to the exhibition.

Alceste Teaterbilletter, Banqueting House, London

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:35:13 GMT

Alceste by GF Handel presented in a staged performance at the Banqueting House, Palace of Whitehall by English Bach Festival.

Alceste is a work of high quality, the mature creation of a great musical dramatist, but for reasons which remain obscure, the production planned for Covent Garden Theatre was cancelled and the music was never performed in the context for which it had been designed.

Alceste is clearly theatrical music and demands stage presentation. The first ever performance was given by the English Bach Festival at the Banqueting House on the 13th of June 1984, then the following day at the Opéra Royal, Château de Versailles, and later recreated at the Linbury Studio, Covent Garden, to bring the music for the first time to the location, if not the actual theatre, for which it was composed.

Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury
Production by Tom Hawkes
Choreography by Sarah Cremer
Costumes by Terence Emery

'The style and quality of performance are just the reminders needed of the special place this dauntless enterprise still holds in our musical life....' - Max Loppert Financial Times

'The dance event of the month....' - Nicholas Dromgoole' Sunday Telegraph

Pioneers since 1977 as 'guest company' at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the English Bach Festival breathes life to the operas of Purcell, Handel, Lully, Rameau, Gluck and presents them with magnificent costumes, elegant dance and the period instruments for which they were written. It has given the opportunity to see great works outside the usual repertoire, many of them for the first time at the Opera House, including some premieres in our time.

Prague Winter Festival Pakketure, Various Venues + Hotel, Prague

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:44:36 GMT

This exclusive Prague Winter Festival package from includes:

• 3 - 5 nights in a 3* hotel including buffet breakfast
• 3 evening performances
• 2 daytime performances
• A comprehensive festival programme
• Welcome pack including Prague City Guide

Featured composers this year are: Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Lehar,Strauss, Smetana and Shostakovich

Evening performances include Opera: Othello, Eugene Onegin and Tosca; Ballet is represented by Smetana’a My Country and will feature in Vivat Operetta which also has pieces from the great Operettas, The Land of Smiles, Die Fledermaus, and Countess Maritza.The concert by the Czech Philharmonic is not to be missed.

The daytime programme includes an enjoyable opening ceremony, city tours and tours from Prague to see some more of the Czech Republic, a folk concert with the Hradistan Dulcimer Band, Jazz with the Baroque Jazz Quartet, Black Light Theatre, Bambini di Praga

Other options include fine dining at one of Prague’s famous Gourmet Restaurants and we are planning a Farewell dinner with some nice and lively music

Telling Tales Teaterbilletter, Quays Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:34:00 GMT

A fun introduction to dance including the opportunity to ask the dancers questions! Telling Tales presents two well-loved children’s stories as well as two new pieces: The Hare and The Tortoise and their famous race; a dressing-up game with the biggest overcoat you’ve ever seen; The Golden Goose involving a cast of thousands and the Sea of Clothes where shirts and skirts join the dance!

Suitable for ages 4+.

Presented by the East Midlands Children’s Theatre Consortium.

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake Teaterbilletter, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Manchester

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:52:17 GMT

When it premiered at in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s triumphant modern re-interpretation of SWAN LAKE turned tradition upside down, taking the dance world by storm. Now firmly crowned as a modern day classic, this iconic production is perhaps best-known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble. Matthew Bourne blends dance, humour and spectacle with extravagant, award-winning designs by Lez Brotherston, to create a provocative and powerful Swan Lake for our times.

Collecting over 30 international theatre awards including three Tonys, SWAN LAKE has been acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the international stage. It has become the longest running ballet in the West End and on Broadway and enjoyed four hugely successful tours in the UK and thrilled audiences all over the world.

Torvill & Dean's Dancing On Ice Live Event Billetter, LG Arena, The NEC, Birmingham

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:58:32 GMT

Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice Tour returns to arenas across the UK next.

Torvill and Dean's Dancing On Ice is coming to Sheffield, Newcastle, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, and Belfast in April/May 2010. Our as yet unannounced celebrities and professional skating couples look set to cut up and melt the ice across the country once more.

Torvill & Dean, will, as ever, be the stars of the show, whilst celebrities for the tour will be confirmed early next year.

An evening of fun family entertainment!!